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Re:Zero suffered from a pretty bad dub delay, that may be a factor for why it never caught their eye. It was massive in 2016, but by the time the dub came out in 2018, other isekai titles were taking the spotlight. 2018 was when we got Mob, so that may have been the only narrow window of time CR was playing nice with the block but it didn’t happen. And while I love the series and wouldn’t complain if the block got it, the second season was torturous at two episodes a DAY. I can’t imagine the slog at one episode a week. I know that opinions toward isekai are divided, but there is no arguing that a good portion of every seasons anime roster since 2016 has been isekai, and Toonami completely ignoring the genre has easily been one of their biggest mistakes. The block should have at the very least dipped their toes into some while they had the chance. The Kadokawa ones are the least divisive and generic. Overlord, Youjo Senki, and Cautious Hero were Funimation titles that Toonami should have been able to pull off had they been open to doing so. Re:Zero, Konosuba and Shield Hero have always been stuck in the Crunchyroll prison.

Demarco’s anime/manga/LN knowledge has always been pretty limited. The surge of LN adaptions came long after he fell off the wagon. Had Toonami had some type of younger advisor for show choices a few years ago I’d bet we would have seen more LN content. We have now and then seen Demarco express interest in stuff like Shield Hero and Konosuba, but as with many problems the block has had, a lot of the popular LN adaptions run into the Crunchyroll problem. Plus, if they were just using surface level online engagement to pick unfamiliar shows, shonen, especially from Jump, always surges to the top of its season. Any time Demarco dropped a top 5 request list it was almost always new shonen. So any LN stuff that didn’t soar to top of the charts like SAO had pretty much no chance getting on their radar.

Well damn, now Plantasm has to air in a tiny box at the bottom of the screen during the other shows.

G4 is bizarre to look at in the modern day. It doesn’t matter if the clip is good or bad, it all seems like it came from an early era YouTube channel, one that after it’s small relevance faded, could have been quietly deleted and taken all these questionable bits to the grave where only a handful of people would remember them, but not be able to find the proof they happened. But nope, it was a real deal network on TV and almost all of it is preserved. The attempted reboot felt like it should have been a YouTube channel, because cable is dying, and there is no market for its content on cable. I don’t think there is anything they could have done to make G4 work in 2022.

I actually really like Amagi Brilliant Park, but it’s not really action so I didn’t list it. If Demarco is willing to go back to his 2018 promise of a more diverse lineup I’d love to see it. Another non action on there I thought was great is Haven’t you Heard Im Sakamoto. Id also love to see a battle harem like Infinite Stratos on the block. It’s a great entry step into the genre. The BD did add nipples, but the TV cut is tame enough for TV run. I enjoyed Familiar of Zero too. It even got a second spinoff season. They were able to have that attitude pre 2019 when the entire anime market was their oyster and they could casually grab any show when they needed it. That’s not their situation anymore. Demarco is at least pretending to listen here, so it’s a good time to shoot your shot on a show you like even if years prior you know they wouldn’t touch it. Maybe if they see adequate demand for something they will get over themselves and air it just to fill a slot in.

You are right, and perhaps I was expecting too much to see any visible change in viewership. I just thought maybe even a small percentage of that online enthusiasm might transfer over to the actual block, even if only for a single night. I still say, even though we didn’t see it in the actual numbers, having the block reach that many individual impressions was still a good and worthwhile thing.

Here’s the full list if you are interested. Couple decent things in there that would fit the block. I’d love to see BTOOOM, GATE, No Game No Life, and School Live. https://www.crunchyroll.com/anime-news/2022/03/24/food-wars-is-it-wrong-to-pick-up-girls-in-a-dungeon-and-more-are-leaving-crunchyroll

Because Nielsen is an average system. More engagement = average goes up. It did not, so it seems the online engagement it got was more just discussion of the episode finally being dubbed, not actual interest in watching it. Its not a big deal. I was just a little shocked at the absurd level of engagement that post about it was getting, and hoped it would lead to some new faces dropping by.

Not anymore. It was one of many Sentai titles to be pulled from CR after the merger.

Some further context to the point I was making about the One Piece post a week ago, here’s the Food Wars reveal engagement after 24 hours. Not even 500 likes. I know, S5 is divisive, but even so, this is the first new show reveal for 2023, and this is all the engagement it can drum up. Meanwhile the crossover post was well over 70k likes and like 25k shares. Unfortunately, that engagement doesn’t seem to have translated to ratings, but at least it was some word of mouth engagement that Toonami still exists.

With 4 seasons and a theater movie, im kinda surprised it never naturally got on their radar.

IMO from a Toonami potential perspective, it’s better to look through the Hidive catalog as it has a filter for dubbed content. https://www.hidive.com/dubs You bring up some hurdles they need to learn to get over. I wouldn’t say “most” isn’t action. There is a healthy amount of action shows here to choose from. At least enough to keep 3 timeslots stocked for a year or two. Same for archive binging, if they can get Sentai on board, just do it. Maybe years ago they weren’t willing, but that’s no excuse not to try again. Even if Urusei is on their radar, that’s one show. That would only be with us for 6 months, they need to be thinking about what happens after + what happens with the other timeslots. Having a rotating B tier Sentai slot at 1am would be great for morale. I think most fans of the block would rather see it air something, rather than nothing and have the schedule uncertain every other week. Cause these days that’s the only two options, Crunchyroll gets all the top shelf stuff and won’t let us have it.

https://twitter.com/Clarknova1/status/1632886517830959106?cxt=HHwWhIC23d7olqktAAAA Not that I expect this to amount to anything in the near future, but maybe this is a sign they are finally going to start taking the Sentai catalog more seriously later in the year. So if there is a Sentai show you are passionate about, now would be a good time to bring it up.

Their S&P crew would probably quit out of sheer frustration of all the boobs they would have to censor every episode. And the fans would have to explain to newcomers why the “untouchable” queen gets touched and molested every episode.

I kind of agree, but personally I don’t use ratings for my opinion on the Golden age, but rather the quality of content. 2015 after the big cut was definitely one of them with KLK which I still am shocked they were able/willing to pull off. Then later in 2015 we started to dip into the Sentai catalog after ignoring it for the prior 3 years. And unlike these days, they picked out two shows that didn’t feel like their typical choices. We started out 2015 in crisis, and ended it with a bright feeling future. Unfortunately, that didn’t last long into 2016. Dimension W, while being mediocre and forgettable, looked like they had some kind of seasonal deal with Funimation to grab and off the beaten path title every few months. But that wasn’t the case, and mid 2016 is when the shonen jump curse started. First it was HxH, then it was Jojo and at that point we were way overloaded on shonen jump content. There was a small beacon of hope in 2017 when they cancelled One Piece, maybe they finally realized they had too much Jump content, but it didn’t last and they kept grabbing it. Thankfully, most modern Jump shows are seasonal, so a lot that we got in recent years didn’t feel like as much of a burden since we got breaks from it every 12-26 weeks. Despite still being too reliant on Jump shows, I actually was pretty enthusiastic for mid to late 2019 Toonami. The block felt like it could grab anything at any time. But early 2020 came and they just stopped replacing shows, then Covid happened and the block has been on a pretty steady decline since. Occasionally in the past 3 years we have small blips of time where things feel like they get better but don’t last. tldr - im putting my dart on 2015 for the blocks peak.

Aren’t the fourth and fifth plate the only Sentai shows that CR has fingers in? If so, I’d say this is still an outlier.

Finally some news, good lord. S5 of Food Wars was terrible, and I’d have been fine leaving the Toonami at S4, but beggars can’t be choosers. Goofy ass food nen is better than nothing. And, it’s only 12 episodes, so we aren’t stuck with it for long. Putting that aside, let’s break down some other theories. Either the stall till AoT theory is something they gave up on because CR won’t rush it out for them, or it was simply never reality and they have genuinely been fighting for a new show since the start of February. I think now we can assume AoT will air the first or second Saturday of April, as that is 5 weeks from the sub, just as we saw with prior seasons. More shocking, MHA is going into a third week doubled up. They easily could have put Food Wars at 12:30 and OP at 2x for the foreseeable future. So we have to ask, what’s the plan here? What could they have on deck that’s so significant they are willing to blow through MHA at double speed? Bleach is the obvious guess, but it’s already so far behind, why rush towards it? If they started it in the summer they could have went straight to S2. FLCL doesn’t make much sense either, as MHA could have just been moved to 12:30, or FLCL could have run at 12:30 and got a running start from MHA runoff. We finally get some news, but now I feel like there are more questions.

Im not an immortal blob of goo nor a well potted blob of goo either. I feel like there is supposed to be a joke in here somewhere but I’m not getting it. As far as your twitter friend goes, I don’t give a damn what opinions someone with 39 followers has, and I’m not sure why anyone else would either. Best guess is they did not want to commit to this until it was absolutely unavoidable. They probably took a gamble on getting AoT by next week and it’s clear now that won’t happen. The week after though? I could see it being ready by then.

So, it was you who was screaming doom at every little thing. So if this big thing has you unshaken, I’d say the meds are doing their job.

I didn’t exactly tax my brain for a creative name. I’d imagine if you looked hard enough you could probably find other Toonamiguy321’s on other platforms because it’s about as generic as they come. Now, refresh my memory, aren’t you the guy that other users told to seek out mental help and medication about 6 months ago because any time Demarco farted you came here to make a panicked thread about how Toonami was for sure finished because of that? Did the meds work? Because burning off their biggest pickup of 2022 seems like a situation where it’s appropriate to be concerned about the future of the block.

Damn dude, dial the aggression down a little. For starters, I have no idea who that is. Secondly, I agreed with your viewpoint on not being able to continuously double up MHA, I simply expanded on the inevitable results of them doing so, none of which are good. But hell, you seem to know it all. Please, enlighten the class on how burning off MHA is a good sign for the block.

A good eye on their part, Zap2it was blank yesterday and has since been updated. This would explain why there has been no announcement, as this would mean 3/11 is no different than this week. That said, 3/18 still should have been out today. This is a very concerning course of action they are taking. MHA is their bread and butter right now, and doing this two weeks in a row makes it genuinely look like they are burning off their finite shows to heavily roll back Toonami’s hours, or possibly even pull the plug.

Usually a Friday post would go up at noon. The other scheduled time for their posts is 8pm, so we will see in a few hours. At this point, they urgently need to get us 3/11, but now 3/18 is on the brink of being late too. So if they don’t announce two at once we will know they are still flying week to week. At this point, I think it’s pretty safe to assume they are flying as close to the ground as possible on AoT. They probably want it on air on 3/11 if possible. If they can’t do that, they will probably do double OP/Naruto at the last second. As for other content, it’s pretty hard to believe they have anything lined up. We are long past the point where a no date reveal would have made sense just to quell concerns among the fans. We have to wonder if Zaslav has put an ultimatum on Toonami, or if the industry has turned its back on the block. I think it’s worth pointing out the the latest sustaining promo (that now has two out of date shows), lists the block start time of 12a, but unlike promos of the past, doesnt give an end hour. If we end up with an even shorter block soon I wouldn’t be surprised at all.

Easy, the same way Velma is getting a S2. They took the initial batch of episodes, cut it in half, and are marketing the second half as a second season so it makes the show not look like the huge mistake everyone said it was. Once those air, it will be quietly cancelled.

It’s been nearly a year and I’m still steaming that I sat through an entire episode of Birdgirl and didn’t even catch the ONE edit in the episode because it was so quick and decently hidden. I give them a pass on 2020. April 1 was peak Covid mania, so the fact that they rolled anything at all out was commendable. I’m sure Post and pals had recorded all that months prior but still. At least they actually did something. I doubt he charged a fortune but Post is pretty prominent these days, cashing in a favor or whatever they did to get him there made it seem like they cared. And Post had a couple good one liners about some of the shows. 21 and 22 felt like AS tasked interns with the job a week beforehand. I’m actually glad R&M is a hot button right now because just maybe they will do a prank that doesn’t heavily revolve around it.